Hierarchy
An intervention designed to reinforce the authority of the executive subsystem through clarifying expectations.
Behavior Plan
Wild Card!
This animal's shells are bulletproof.
The armadillo.
An intervention to model, practice and give feedback on warmth building skills.
Doing warmth building activities in session such as playing games or cooking.
An intervention to address parents sharing developmentally inappropriate information with their childen.
Scripting and role playing developmentally appropriate conversations.
An intervention to address caregivers who lack flexibility and do not make changes to plans when unforeseen circumstances arise.
Wild Card!
This country has 421 words for snow.
Scotland.
A strategy to break up coalitions during a family therapy session.
Rearrange seating.
An intervention to address the barrier of caregivers' expectations not being developmentally appropriate.
Scripting and role playing developmentally appropriate conversations.
An intervention to address behavior noncompliance in a permissive household.
Clarifying and consistently implementing expectations, rewards and consequences.
A strategy to help caregivers balance consequences with rewards.
Plans for caregivers for how (including where and when) they communicate and make decisions together.
A strategy to break up coalitions in the family system outside of therapy sessions.
An intervention to increase the affective bond between family member.
Assigning homework of doing fun activities together.
An intervention to address the driver that parents are isolated and rely on their children to meet their social needs.
Wild Card!
The size in square miles of Connecticut.
5543 sq. miles
Strategy to decrease triangulation or a parent/ child coalition.
Meeting alone with caregivers
A strategy that can be used in session or assigned as homework to increase family cohesiveness and decrease coalitions.
Warmth building activities.
A strategy to design an effective behavior plan for a family in which the child is an older teen who has never had clear expectations or consistent consequences.
Wild Card!
Identify at least one of Connecticut's two nick names.
The Nutmeg State or the Constitution State.
A strategy to address the barrier that caregivers feel that their child has not earned growth privileges.
Psychoeducation around the identification and importance of growth privileges followed by a pro/ cons list.
A systemic and sustainable intervention to reinforce the executive subsystem.
Increasing social supports for the parents.
An intervention addressing the barrier in session of a caregiver getting angry at a child, the child getting defensive and the other caregiver jumping in to protect the child.
Wild Card!
How many letters in the longest English word?
189,819 letters (It's a protein nick named "tintin" and takes 3.5 hours to read out loud.)
An intervention to address caregivers' statement that "my child should know better."
Psychoeducation, reviewing child development handouts and lodging the child in the appropriate developmental stage.
An intervention to address caregivers implementing punishments for rules that the child didn't know they broke.
Developing a behavior plan so the child knows ahead of time what the expectations are.